The SPHAs Basketball Team

The SPHAs Basketball Team is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 2013.

Broad & Wood Sts., Philadelphia

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The South Philadelphia Hebrew Association was a dominant professional team from 1918 to 1959, winning 12 league championships. During its heyday in the 1930s, the team was all Jewish. Owner/coach Eddie Gottlieb was a seminal figure in the establishment of the NBA. Instrumental in the growth of pro basketball in its formative years, in later years the team toured with the Harlem Globetrotters. Home games were played here at the former Broadwood Hotel.

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1884 · Philadelphia, Camden. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · The Matthews-Northrup up-to-date map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1901 · Philadelphia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1902 · Philadelphia and vicinity, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware / Henry Gannett, chief… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1920 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Philadelphia, 1901, covering the location of The SPHAs Basketball Team, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Philadelphia, 1901, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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